Remember our May article on plans to change the restaurant inspections scoring system for King County? Sarah Schacht, who pushed hard for the change after a devastating case of e. coli, wrote here about her disappointing experiences on the committee. Here’s how to give Public Health-Seattle & King County your opinions on whether and how to make a change.

How many cookbooks are too many cookbooks? Around 1,500-2,000, according to Nancy Leson. Here’s how she decided how to pare her collection.

Here’s the Seattle Times obituary for beloved food and wine pioneer John Sarich, who died Sunday, as well as a 1990 profile of Sarich. A friend summed him up with two words on his Facebook page: “Gentle” and “class.” Another longtime chef wrote, “Every young Chef in Seattle needs to bow their heads with the rest of us. He was throwing down when Seattle was still considered a cow town.”

Another farewell, this one to John Owen, the cookbook author, sports writer and “Intermediate Eater” at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Art Thiel wrote in his appreciation of Owen that “because he was a relentless runner before the world ever heard of jogging, and because he was a cook of such surpassing skill that foul food was unlikely to have ever passed his lips — except for the Korean War, where he was an Army cryptographer — it seemed likely that he possessed all the qualities to become the first to live forever.” Here’s the recipe for Owen’s “Puget Sound Stew,” which appeared in his first cookbook.

Twin Peaks is coming back! No word yet on whether authentic North Bend cherry pie will return to the big screen. Times have changed since the original show, though. As Pete Wells envisioned it in #ModernTwinPeaks, “Audrey ties cherry stem in knot with tongue; One Eyed Jacks bartender says “You know we make our own maraschino cherries?”

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Bethany Jean Clement is The Seattle Times food writer. Her writing has also appeared in Best Food Writing, Food & Wine, Gourmet.com, Beard House, Town & Country, Edible Seattle, The Stranger and more. Follow her on Twitter: @BJeanClement.